Technical specification for tender

SECTION 16910-1
ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT MONITORS
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Table of contents:
1.GENERAL........................................................................................................................................................................................3
1.1DESCRIPTION............................................................................................................................................................................3
1.2REFERENCES.............................................................................................................................................................................3
1.3SUBMITTALS.............................................................................................................................................................................3
1.4QUALITY....................................................................................................................................................................................3
2.PRODUCT........................................................................................................................................................................................3
2.1MANUFACTURERS..................................................................................................................................................................3
2.2CIRCUIT MONITORS................................................................................................................................................................3
3.EXECUTION....................................................................................................................................................................................8
3.1INSTALLATION.........................................................................................................................................................................8

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GENERAL

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DESCRIPTION

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Electronic Circuit Monitors, as described herein, shall be provided to monitor electrical circuits as designated on
the project drawings.
The manufacturer shall demonstrate the Circuit Monitor is not a prototype and that similar devices have been
installed and successfully operated for at least five years. The device shall not violate any U. S. patents.
Any networking of the Circuit Monitors shall comply with Section 16920-1 - Power Monitoring and Control
System.
REFERENCES
All Circuit Monitors shall be UL 508 Listed, CSA approved, and CE compliant.
The Circuit Monitor shall comply with the applicable portions of NEMA standards. In addition, it shall comply
with FCC Emission Standards specified in Part 15, Sub-part J for Class A application, IEC 801-2 Electrostatic
Discharge, and IEC 801-5 Surge Voltage Immunity requirements.
SUBMITTALS
Indicate electrical characteristics and connection requirements. When Circuit Monitor components are installed
by the power equipment manufacturer, the power equipment shop drawings shall clearly identify the components,
the internal connections, and all contractor connections. The drawings shall show all components including
necessary component dimensions; type, size, and weight; location of conduit entry and exit; single line diagram
indicating external wiring requirements. Drawings shall identify terminal blocks used for interconnections and
wire type to be used.
Product Data: Provide catalog sheets and technical data sheets to indicate physical data and electrical performance,
electrical characteristics, and connection requirements.
QUALITY
The Circuit Monitor vendor shall be ISO 9000 registered to demonstrate quality compliance.
Circuit Monitors included within the power equipment lineups shall be factory installed, wired and tested prior to
shipment to the job site.

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PRODUCT

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MANUFACTURERS

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The Circuit Monitors shall be POWERLOGIC as manufactured by Square D Company [or approved equal].
CIRCUIT MONITORS
Electronic circuit monitors shall provide true rms metered values. Information provided by each circuit monitor
shall include frequency, temperature, current, demand current, voltage, real power, reactive power, apparent
power, demand power, predicted demand power, power factor, accumulated energy, accumulated reactive energy,
total harmonic distortion (THD) of each current and voltage, and K-factor of each current.
The current and voltage signals shall be digitally sampled at a rate high enough to provide valid data for waveform
analysis and true rms metering accurate beyond the 30th harmonic (fundamental of 60 Hz).
The Circuit Monitors shall be rated for an operating temperature range of -25 C to 70 C and have an overcurrent
withstand rating of 500 amps for 1 second.
All setup parameters required by the Circuit Monitors shall be stored in nonvolatile memory and retained in the
event of a control power interruption. Any battery or other device used to provide non-volatile memory shall be
serviceable from the front of the circuit monitor and servicing shall not require removing the circuit monitor from
the gear in which it is mounted.

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The Circuit Monitor shall maintain in nonvolatile memory maximum and minimum values for each of the
instantaneous values reported as well as the time and date that the minimum or maximum was set.
The Circuit Monitors shall accept inputs from industry standard instrument transformers (120 VAC secondary PTs
and 5 A secondary CTs). Connection to 480Y/277 VAC circuits shall be possible without use of PTs. In the
interest of safety, provision shall be made that if PTs are not used, it shall not be necessary to bring voltages
greater than 120 VAC (line to neutral) to the Circuit Monitor itself.
- PT primaries through 1.2 mV shall be supported
- CT primaries through 32 kA shall be supported
The Circuit Monitor shall be accurate to 0.15% of reading plus 0.05% of full scale for voltage and current
metering and 0.3% for all power and energy functions.
- These accuracies shall be maintained for both light and full loads.
- No annual recalibration by users shall be required to maintain these accuracies.
- Voltage and current for all phases shall be sampled simultaneously to assure high accuracy in conditions of
low power factor or large waveform distortions (harmonics).
Any Circuit Monitor may be applied in three-phase, three- or four-wire systems. A fourth CT input shall be
available to measure neutral or ground current. If the fourth CT is not used, then a residual current shall be
calculated by vectorial addition of the phase currents. In four-wire connections the Circuit Monitor shall utilize
the circuit neutral common reference and not earth ground, to provide metering accuracy.
The Circuit Monitor shall be capable of being applied without modification at nominal frequencies of 50, 60, or
400 Hz.
The Circuit Monitor shall operate properly over a wide range of control power including 100-264 VAC or 100-300
VDC. Connections to 18-60 VDC shall also be available.
The Circuit Monitor shall surface or flush mount to an enclosure and be provided with an attractive finish bezel
ring.
- The Circuit Monitors shall be equipped with an integral, continuous duty, long-life display to provide local
access to the following metered quantities as well as the minimum and maximum value of each instantaneous
quantity since last reset of min/max:
- Current, per phase rms, 3-phase average and neutral (if applicable)
- Voltage, phase-to-phase, phase-to-neutral, and 3-phase average (phase-to-phase and phase-to-neutral)
- Real power, per phase and 3-phase total
- Reactive power, per phase and 3-phase total
- Apparent power, per phase and 3-phase total
- Power factor, 3-phase total and per phase
- Frequency
- Demand current, per phase and three phase average
- Demand real power, three phase
- Demand apparent power, three phase
- Accumulated Energy, (MWh and MVARh)
- THD, current and voltage, per phase
- K-factor, current, per phase
- Reset of the following electrical parameters shall also be allowed from the front of the Circuit Monitor:
- Peak demand current
- Peak demand power (kW) and peak demand apparent power (kVA)
- Energy (MWh) and reactive energy (MVARh)
- Setup for system requirements shall be allowed from the front of the Circuit Monitor. Setup provisions shall
include:
- CT rating [
]:5)
- PT rating [
]:120)
- System type [three-phase, 3-wire] [three-phase, 4-wire]
- Demand interval (5-60 min.)
- Watt-hours per pulse
- All reset and setup functions shall have a means for protection against unauthorized/accidental changes.
- For ease in operator viewing, the display shall remain on continuously, with no detrimental effect on the
useful life of the Circuit Monitor.
The Circuit Monitor shall be equipped with a front panel communications port as standard equipment. The port
shall be completely accessible during normal operation and shall not require exposure of the operator to life-

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threatening voltage when in use. The operator shall be able to quickly connect a small Personal Computer (PC) to
this port without use of tools or splices. This front panel port shall have all of the communication functionality of
the standard hard wired rear port. When a connection is made to the front port, the Circuit Monitor shall disregard
communication from the rear port until the front port is disconnected.
It shall be possible to field upgrade the firmware in the Circuit Monitor to enhance functionality. These firmware
upgrades shall be done through either the front or rear communication connection. No Circuit Monitor
disassembly or changing of integrated circuit chips shall be required. It shall not be necessary to de-energize the
circuit or the equipment to upgrade the firmware.
The following metered values as well as the minimum and maximum instantaneous readings since last reset shall
be communicated by the Circuit Monitor:
- Frequency
- Temperature
- Current, per phase rms and neutral (if applicable)
- Current, 3-phase average rms
- Current, apparent rms
- Voltage, phase-to-phase and phase-to-neutral
- Voltage unbalance, phase-to-phase and phase-to-neutral
- Power factor, per phase
- Power factor, 3-phase total
- Real power, per phase and 3-phase total
- Reactive power, per phase and 3-phase total
- Apparent power, per phase and 3-phase total
- Demand current, per phase and three-phase average
- Demand real power, three-phase average
- Demand apparent power, three-phase average
- Accumulated energy, (MWh, MVAH, and MVARh)
- Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), voltage and current, per phase
- K-factor, per phase
All power demand calculations shall be done by any one of the following calculation methods, selectable by the
user:
- Thermal demand using a sliding window updated every 15 seconds. The window length shall be set by the
user from 5-60 minutes in five minute increments.
- Block interval, with optional sub-intervals. The window length shall be set by the user from 5-60 minutes in 5
minute intervals. The user shall be able to set the sub-interval length from 5-30 minutes in 5 minute intervals.
- External Pulse Synchronization, utilizing a synch pulse provided externally. An optional status input shall be
used to sense the pulse.
- Sliding block interval with continuous sliding 15 second subintervals.
- The following demand readings shall be reported by the Circuit Monitor:
- Average demand current, per phase
- Peak demand current, per phase
- Average demand for real power, reactive power, and apparent power
- Predicted demand for real power, reactive power, and apparent power
- Peak demand for real power, reactive power, and apparent power
- The default demand calculation method shall be a 15 minute sliding window thermal demand.
Each Circuit Monitor shall be capable of receiving a broadcast message over the communications network that can
be used to synchronize demand calculations by several Circuit Monitors. This message need not be addressed
specifically to any one Circuit Monitor.
The following energy readings shall be reported by the Circuit Monitor:
- Accumulated energy
- Accumulated reactive energy
- Accumulated apparent energy
- For real and reactive energy reported values, separate totals for energy flow in each direction shall be kept, as
well as an arithmetic sum.
- Each Circuit Monitor shall be capable of operating a solid state KYZ output relay to provide output pulses for
a user definable increment of reported energy. Minimum relay life shall be in excess of one billion operations.

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All Circuit Monitors shall include current and voltage waveform capture capability. Waveform capture shall be
user selectable for 4, 12, 36, 48, or 60 cycles of data.
- Either type of waveform capture shall be initiated either from a Personal Computer Workstation (PCW)
running the appropriate Power Monitoring and Control Systems software, or by the circuit monitor as a user
defined response to an alarm condition. In addition, an external trigger can initiate the 12, 36, 48, or 60 cycle
waveform. The waveform capture sequence shall be initiated within 1 millisecond after the trigger is sensed.
A user definable delay shall determine how many of the cycles are shown before and after the trigger event.
- The Circuit Monitor shall capture, and store in internal memory, 64 digitally sampled data points for each
cycle of each phase voltage and current.
- The Circuit Monitor shall transmit the waveform samples over the network to the personal computer
workstation for display, archival, and analysis.
- Each voltage and current of all the phases shall be sampled concurrently so that proper phase relationships are
maintained, so that harmonic flow analysis can be performed, and so that the effect of a disturbance can be
observed on all phase voltages and currents.
- Harmonic analysis performed on the captured waveforms shall resolve harmonics through the 31st.
- The data used for the four cycle waveform capture display shall also be used to derive metered quantities in
order to provide meaningful additional data.
- All waveforms must reflect actual circuit performance. Waveforms synthesized or composed over time shall
not be acceptable.
Data logging may be accomplished either within the circuit monitor or at the PCW, or both. Each circuit monitor
shall be able to log data, alarms and events, and multiple waveforms. The monitors shall offer up to 356 KB of
on-board non-volatile memory. This information shall be communicated to the PCW upon demand. Logged
information to be stored in each Circuit Monitor includes:
- Up to 14 separate data logs shall be configurable by the user. Each log entry shall be date and time stamped.
The type of data for the log shall be selected from a list of 175 monitored values. Each log entry shall be user
configurable to consist of from one to over 75 values of instantaneous data, depending on the type of data. It
shall be possible to set up each log to take data at a different user defined schedule interval. In addition, it
shall be possible for a user to define an event or new min/max condition that will trigger log file entries.
- Data logs can be configured by users to be Fill & Hold or Circular (FIFO).
- A Min/Max log file shall include the time, date, and value for the minimum and maximum of each of the
instantaneous metered values.
- An alarm and event log shall contain time, date, event information, and coincident information for each user
defined alarm or event. This log shall have a capacity of up to 1,000 events selected from over 100 alarms or
events.
- Waveform logs shall store captured waveforms, 4, 12, 36, 48, and 60 cycle as defined by the user. Waveform
log entries shall be scheduled at a user defined interval, externally triggered, or forced in response to a user
defined event. Waveform logs shall be either Fill & Hold or Circular (FIFO) as defined by the user.
- A simple user interface shall be available to enable the user to allocate Circuit Monitor memory to different
log functions.
Circuit Monitor Input/Output Options: Input/Output modules shall be field replaceable. Circuit Monitors shall be
equipped with one of the following I/O options as shown on the project drawings:
- Option One - One solid state output suitable for KYZ pulse initiation; one solid state input suitable for external
end of demand interval demand pulse detection
- Option Two - One solid state output suitable for KYZ pulse initiation; eight solid state status inputs
- Option Three - One solid state output suitable for KYZ pulse initiation; four solid state status inputs; three
mechanical output relays
- Option Four - One solid state output suitable for KYZ pulse initiation; four solid state status inputs; three
mechanical output relays; one analog input, convertible from 0-5 VDC to 4-20 mA; one analog output, 4-20
mA
- Option Five - One solid state output suitable for KYZ pulse initiation; four solid state status inputs; three
mechanical output relays; one analog input, convertible from 0-5 VDC to 4-20 mA; one analog output, 0-1
mA
- Option Six - One solid state output suitable for KYZ pulse initiation; four solid state status inputs; three
mechanical output relays; four analog inputs, convertible from 0-5 VDC to 4-20 mA; four analog outputs, 420 mA

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Option Seven - One solid state output suitable for KYZ pulse initiation; four solid state status inputs; three
mechanical output relays; four analog inputs, convertible from 0-5 VDC to 4-20 mA; four analog outputs, 0-1
mA
Alarm events shall be user definable.
- The following classes of events shall be available as alarm events:
- Over/under current
- Over/under voltage
- Current imbalance
- Phase loss, current
- Phase loss, voltage
- Voltage imbalance
- Over kVA
- Over kW or kVAR into/out of load
- Over/under frequency
- Under power factor, true or displacement
- Over THD
- Over K-factor
- Over demand, current or power
- Reverse power
- Phase reversal
- Status Input change
- End of incremental energy interval
- End of demand interval
- Over/under analog inputs
- Current sag/swell
- Voltage sag/swell
- For each over/under metered value alarm, the user shall be able to define a pick-up, drop-out, and delay.
- There shall be three alarm severity levels in order make it easier for the user to respond to the most important
events first.
- Indication of an alarm condition shall be given on the front panel.
Output Relay Control
- Relay outputs shall operate either by user command sent over the communication link, or set to operate in
response to user defined alarm event.
- Output relays shall close in either a momentary or latched mode as defined by the user.
- Each output relay used in a momentary contact mode shall have an independent timer that can be set by the
user.
- It shall be possible for individual relay outputs to be controlled by multiple alarms in a wired "OR"
configuration.
All Circuit Monitors noted on the project drawings shall include sag and swell detection capability. This
capability is characterized by the following features:
- The Circuit Monitor shall continuously monitor for disturbances in the currents and incoming voltage. There
shall be zero blind time; each cycle shall be individually monitored.
- Disturbance events less than one cycle in length shall be detected.
- The user shall be able to set a threshold and delay which shall be used by the circuit monitor to determine if an
event has occurred. The threshold shall be user defined as either a fixed setpoint or relative setpoint. When
using the relative setpoint, the Circuit Monitor will set the nominal current or voltage equal to its present
average value. The Circuit Monitor will automatically adjust the nominal current and voltage values to avoid
nuisance alarms caused by gradual daily variations of currents and voltages.
- Upon detecting a disturbance, the Circuit Monitor shall be capable of :
- Logging a waveform of the event, 12, 36, 48, or 60 cycles in length, of all phase currents and voltages.
The sample rate shall be of sufficient resolution to show the 31st harmonic for each cycle.
- Operating any output relay on an optional I/O module.
- Recording the disturbance into an event log with a date and time stamp to the millisecond.
- Causing an operator alarm at the PCW workstation.

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All data and waveform logs shall be communicated over the local area network or through the front panel
communications port so that the user may view and analyze the data using the PMCS software and
workstation.
Where indicated on the drawings, the Circuit Monitors shall be designed to run customized programs to greatly
expand the Circuit Monitors functionality for the particular installation.
- These programs shall be written in a circuit monitor programming language similar to a compiled BASIC
language. It shall include the following capabilities:
- Scheduled tasks
- Event Tasks
- Math functions including: add, subtract, multiple, divide, sine, cosine, square root, etc.
- Logical functions including: AND, OR, XOR, NOT, shift, etc.
- Loop commands
- Compare statements
- Counters and timers
- The circuit monitor manufacturer shall offer regularly scheduled classes to instruct owners on how to develop
custom programs. In addition, the manufacturer shall offer custom programming services.
- Changing programs shall not require any physical modifications to the Circuit Monitor, such as changing
computer chips or cards. All changes shall be done via either of the communications ports.
- Examples of custom programs would include:
- Metering of specialized utility rate structures, including real time pricing and curtailable rates
- Data reduction using smart data logging
- Automatic monthly logging/reset of kWH and Peak Demand
- Statistical profile analysis of metered quantities
- CBEMA power quality analysis
- Calculations for IEEE-519 verification
- Metering of combined utilities: gas, water, steam, electric
- Non-critical control schemes, such as load control or power factor correction, based on multiple
conditions e.g. time of day and input status
Advanced harmonic information shall be available via the Circuit Monitor. This shall include the calculation of
the harmonic magnitudes and angles through the 31st harmonic.
- This information shall be available for all three phases, current and voltage, plus the neutral current. To insure
maximum accuracy for analysis, the current and voltage information for all phases shall be obtained
simultaneously from the same cycle.
- The Circuit Monitor shall have a minimum of 100k of on board memory to log harmonic magnitudes and
angles.
- The harmonic magnitude shall be reported as a percentage of the fundamental or as a percentage of the rms
values, as selected by the user.

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EXECUTION

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PMCS components, including Circuit Monitors, Electronic Trip Units, Transformer Temperature Monitors, Motor
Protection Devices, and Digital Relays, included within the power equipment lineups shall be factory installed,
wired and tested prior to shipment to the job site.
All control power, CT, PT and data communications wire shall be factory wired and harnessed within the
equipment enclosure.
Where external circuit connections are required, terminal blocks shall be provided and the manufacturer's
drawings must clearly identify the interconnection requirements including wire type to be used.
The electrical contractor shall install all wiring required to externally connect equipment lineups.

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